Egg-case.



HI-HEN'EL.

EGG CASE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. I914.

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HENRY HENEL, or KANSAS cut-Museum.

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Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented 14, 1917-,

Application filed February 24, 1914. Serial No. 820,444.

as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to eggucases, and more particularly to a device for containing eggs in spaced relation, so that they may be shipped or carried without danger of breaking.

In accomplishing this object, I have provided improved details of structure hereinafter described and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, wherein Figure I is a perspective view of an egg case constructed according to my invention; some of the compartments being empty to illustrate the construction of the partitions.

Fig. II is an elevation of the case;

a part of the side being brolien away to illus rate the interior construction and use.

Fig. III is a detail perspective of a portion of a top or bottom spacer.

Referring more in detail to the parts:

1 designates a box or crate, which preferably comprises a body portion and lid of corrugated strawboard, or the like, the body having wooden ends 2 and the cover being provided with end ears 3, which overlie the ends of the body when the box is closed, and may be nailed thereto in order to hold the cover securely in place.

In the bottom of the box is a spacer'5 comprising a base 6 of cardboard or the like, and rails 7 the latter being also preferably composed of stiff cardboard and crossed to form compartments. I

In the preferred construction the rails 7 are permanently connected with the base 6, so that the parts may be installed-and removed as a single unit. The base 6 has apertures 8 therein through which the end of an egg maybe projected; the materialof I the base being slit from the aperture to render thebase adjustable for different sizes of eggs. I

Supported on the base 6 is a divider 11 comprising crossed'strips" of strawboard or the like, the ends of which project beyond the members which they cross, in order to space thelatter'from the sides and ends of the box, and supported on the top of-the divider is' a spacer 13 corresponding in size and construction with the bottom spacer 5 heretofore described.

In using a case of this land, the bottom spacer is first installed in the box and the divider then inserted and supported on the bottom spacer. The eggs to eshipped are then packed, one in each of the compartments and with their ends seated in the apertures 8 in the bottom spacer.

When the crate is-full of eggs, the top spacer is seated-on the tops of the eggs, which project above the top of the divider so that the ends (if the eggs project through the apertures irithe upper spacer; the apertures being enlarged, if necessary,-by the eggs being projected into the apertures when the spacer is forced downwardly there against, so that the eggs of difl'erent size may be placed in the crate and all held and seat in the apertures in the top and bottom spacers.

It is apparent that being supported in this manner, the eggs cannot easily be broken and may be shipped safely.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by--Letters-Patent, is

' In an egg container, the combination of a pair of spacers and a dividing member removably mounted between the spacers, said spacers comprising base members having apertures therein in paired relation and in perpendicular alinement, and rails secured to the outer faces of the base members in crossed relation toformcompartments about the apertures andto space the bases from the container, and said dividing member comprising crossed strips forming individ- In testimony whereof I afii in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. CAPS,

L. E. CoA'rs.

x my signature HENRY I'HENEL. 

